It is the earliest surviving example of a book in the English language known to have been written by a woman. It was written between the 14th and 15th centuries by Julian of Norwich, about whom almost nothing is known. GradeSaver, 14 June 2019 Web.Revelations of Divine Love is a medieval book of Christian mystical devotions. Next Section Quotes Previous Section Glossary How To Cite in MLA Format Anonymous 'Revelations of Divine Love Themes'. Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. She is the first woman to ever write a book in the English language, and she wrote about religious mysticism in response to human suffering. She categorizes that mystic bliss as a religious epiphany, literal Revelations.

By meditating on the mysteries of her faith, Julian reports transcendence and bliss. In Julian's systematic theology, gender roles are posed as paradoxical inverses, which is important to understanding her conclusion that God is Love, because good and evil are also paradoxical inverses. Julian says, 'Not only is God a father, Jesus was a mother.' This gender reversal of Jesus's character is another way of saying God is full of motherly love for all her children. She says that God is so loving, the limitations of the metaphor 'God is father,' are too constricting. She reports having ecstatic moments of prophetic transcendence, where she was united with the love of God, and she reports no malice in the character of God. Who wouldn't want love to be the answer? And yet, it takes boldness to say what Julian said. Paul called the 'mystery of the Gospel.' Love as the answer How can a loving God create suffering animals in a world full of evil? The question points Julian to what St. Because evil exists, and because God 'made everything that exists,' there is a dilemma that Julian quickly isolates as a question above all other questions: The theodicy. The question revolves around the existential problem of evil. Is God evil or good? That is a forbidden question in certain religious communities, but Julian goes there in the first section of her book. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous

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